So much has happened in the last 6 weeks, so much has been learnt and some of it has been the hard way! We are now moored in Aston Marina for two reasons, first is for work, as we need to continue for the next ten months, to pay back monies owed to family to buy the boat and to save a little, also we felt it was a slightly easier introduction to living aboard, with the comfort of 240v, pump out & water on tap literally.
In this post i am going to concentrate on what its been like on the boat, my next post is going to be on the people we have met as its a mixed bag and deserves its own post.
Tony my hubby found it easier than me to adapt to the boat, in hindsight i wish we had kept the house for a while longer so we could have dealt with the issues we had easier, without sometimes having to live with various bits of the boat pulled apart while we make adjustments, but then on the other hand, we would have to do it sometime in the future where we wouldn't have the option. I think the biggest thing for me was just the change in routine, having to really think about what you need and making sure its there when you need it. For example, making sure the fire ash is cleared out, ( where to put it, i started with a plastic bag which isn't a good idea is it!) then met someone who told me about a tilly box so sorted. I suppose what I'm trying to say is thinking ahead, making sure the coal bucket is filled up, the logs are drying out behind the stove while dried out ones are used in the right order. If we haven't run the engine then boiling the kettle so i can wash up properly. Emptying the small bin the night before and putting it in the cratch to take out on way to work. I don't know if this is going to be of interest to anyone reading this, i suppose ill see, but if its boring the crap out of people let me know!
Issues we have had to sort out are, washing machine not wired in right, so when we turned it on it tripped the whole boat. Thats now fixed. The fridge was the original one that came with the boat and i know many people live with the little top box freezer but ours wouldn't even freeze ice, and i wasn't making a trip to the supermarket everyday. So i found a 2/3 fridge 1/3 freezer an inlander, from Midland Chandler, £475 from there eBay page, and i cant praise it enough. Flushing the loo & the TV went off, this was lack of 12v power, Tony had knocked the trip switch but couldn't figure it out for a while! Condensation! i know you cant get away from it, but we have found something to make it a bit better its a plastic sheet that you attach to the window with supplied sticky then hair dryer it in place, and its considerably reduced it.
Right i think thats enough of that, there are two other issues that I'm going to write about in the next blog, as they deserve there own dedicated blog!
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